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SUMMARY:This is Now: Richard A. Clarke on Cyber Threat
DESCRIPTION:Cyberwar”— or cyber-anything\, for that matter— has always carried a whiff of science fiction about it. But it’s not fiction\, it’s certainly not entertainment\, and – as terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke warns us— multiple cyberwars are underway already. The battlefronts range from simple identity theft to the disruption of nuclear programs and medical care. The Pentagon even has a word for this new front line: the fifth domain. That’s where ongoing skirmishes for our security as individuals and as citizens are being fought. \n\nRichard Clark has long experience in American security matters. He’s served as a key advisor on intelligence and counterterrorism to three US presidents. In 1998 President Bill Clinton appointed him as the National Coordinator for Security\, Infrastructure Protection\, and Counterterrorism for the U.S. National Security Council. His latest book\, The Fifth Domain: Defending our Country\, Companies\, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats\, calls on that long experience to tackle one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in modern security. \nJoin us at Kepler’s as he shares deep research from boardrooms\, government conference rooms\, and quantum computing labs—  all in pursuit of “cyber resilience”\, a position of strength against web hacking\, election interference\, and other boogeymen of the digital realm that are all too real.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-richard-a-clarke-on-cyber-threat/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Third Thursdays at Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Featured reader: Jan Steckel!\nOpen mic to follow.\nFree and open to the public. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest poetry book is Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018). Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, New Verse News\, November 3 Club\, Assaracus and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest three times\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nIf you wish to be included in the Willow Glen Poetry Project\, please email it to willowglenpoetry@gmail.com. If you cannot email your poem see Dennis Richardson. It’s still okay to just read your poem and not blog it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-third-thursdays-at-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Pushpa Macfarlane":MAILTO:graphique05@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190713T170000
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SUMMARY:Kalyn Josephson with Tara Sim
DESCRIPTION:We’re launching Kalyn Josephson’s debut novel\, The Storm Crow a thrilling new fantasy that follows a fallen princess as she ignites a rebellion to bring back the magical elemental crows that were taken from her people. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tropical kingdom of Rhodaire\, magical\, elemental Crows are part of every aspect of life until the Illucian empire invades\, destroying everything. That terrible night throws Princess Anthia into a deep depression. Her sister Caliza is busy running the kingdom after their mother’s death\, but all Thia can do is think of all she has lost. But when Caliza is forced to agree to a marriage between Thia and the crown prince of Illucia\, Thia is finally spurred into action. And after stumbling upon a hidden Crow egg in the rubble of a rookery\, she and her sister devise a dangerous plan to hatch the egg in secret and get back what was taken from them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Storm Crow is everything we love about YA fantasy\, with an enchanting world and original magic that keeps the story fresh. Clashing kingdoms\, thrilling action\, and an imperfect heroine makes this book a must-read” Adrienne Young (Sky in the Deep) \nKalyn will be chatting with Tara Sim\, author of the Timekeeper series and we couldn’t be more excited
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kalyn-josephson-with-tara-sim/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190711T190000
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SUMMARY:phren-Z Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will be announced soon. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z—a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers—is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail us at info@bookshopsantacruz.com by August 3rd\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phren-z-live-reading-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Reading Series : Francesca Bell\, Dane Cervine\, and Lee Rossi
DESCRIPTION:Francesca Bell\, Dane Cervine\, and Lee Rossi \n  \nWell-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, May 14\, 7:00pm\nfeature: Kimy Martinez \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nBio and program description to come. \nupcoming in Well-RED:\nJune 11: Francesca Bell\, Dane Cervine\, and Lee Rossi\nJuly 9: Jade Bradbury and Rachelle Escamilla\nAugust 13: Greg Mahrer\, Alexandra Mattraw\, and Kathleen Winter\nSeptember 10: TBA\nOctober 8: Beau Williams and Tim J. Myers\nNovember 12: Caesura release party\nDecember 10: Red Wheelbarrow release party.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-reading-series-francesca-bell-dane-cervine-and-lee-rossi/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190608T200000
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SUMMARY:Night Shift: A Jewish Cultural Experience
DESCRIPTION:Night Shift is a Jewish cultural experience. It’s a new take on Shavuot-the holiday that celebrates Jewish culture and literacy. Come gather at Town and Country Village in Palo Alto after normal operating hours\, and shift your perspective as to what is possible there. \nExplore your favorite yoga studios\, coffee shops and book stores in a whole new way. Night Shift is an immersive and multidisciplinary festival of Jewish culture\, complete with live music\, text study\, performance art\, conversation\, movement and-of course-delicious food to eat. \nFood will be available for purchase throughout the program at various Town and Country food shops\, including Ayelet Babka. \nNight Shift is a collaboration of Town and Country\, OFJCC and BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change. \nFor more information\, please contact Zoe Jick at zjick@paloaltojcc.org. \nFor more information about the OFJCC-BINA partnership\, visit https://www.paloaltojcc.org/Jewish-Life/Bina. \nEarly Bird Rate: $18 | Price increases on May 15 to $25. \nPresented by The Oshman Family JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/night-shift-a-jewish-cultural-experience/
LOCATION:Town and Country Village\, El Camino Real & Embarcadero Road\, Palo Alto\, 94301
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Oshman Family JCC":MAILTO:info@paloaltojcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190428T160000
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SUMMARY:David Zeltser\, The Night Library
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, APRIL 28\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 26th\, 2019. \nThe Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books and libraries\, perfect for book lovers of all ages! \nAfter a young boy goes to sleep upset that he’s getting a book for his birthday\, he’s visited in the night by Patience and Fortitude\, the two stone lions who guard the New York Public Library. Soon\, he’s magically whisked away from his cozy home in the Bronx\, and the two mighty lions show him the wonder of the library. There\, the inquisitive Latino boy discovers the power of books and their role not only in his own life\, but also in the lives of the people he loves. \nRaul Colon’s gorgeous\, rich art creates an immersive world in this book about books\, which is sure to capture the imaginations of kids and adults and inspire them to grab their library cards and dive into the worlds of stories. \nDAVID ZELTSER emigrated with his family from the former Soviet Union at age five. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in physics\, he was admitted to vet school to study wildlife medicine\, but ultimately came back to his first love–storytelling. David and his friend Julia Chiapella cofounded the Santa Cruz Young Writers Program’s tutoring and writing center at the Museum of Art & History. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, with his wife\, Fiona; their daughter\, Naomi; and their dog\, Ella.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-zeltser-the-night-library/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190428T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190428T173000
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years ago\, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he’s broadening that warning: the entire human game has begun to play itself out. \nJoin us for an event with one of America’s most outspoken climate activists. Since authoring his landmark 1989 book on climate change\, The End of Nature\, McKibben’s work continues to provoke authority. In 2007\, Deep Economy predicted the “shop local” movement while criticizing the too-rapid growth of multi-national corporations as they bleached away main streets across America. He founded Step It Up\, 350.org\, was outspoken against the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline\, and offered a frequent voice of dissent in the 2016 election. \nIn his new book\, Falter\, McKibben looks beyond the threat of climate change — to artificial technology\, robotics\, and a rampant onslaught of new technologies\, threatening the variety of human experience. At the core of McKibben’s most recent work is an essential question: What do we want our future to be?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190427T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190427T230000
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2019
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday\, April 27th\, 2019\, all day long\, from opening at 9 am to close at 11 pm! Check back for our events and opportunities this year\, or sign up for our events emails. \nWhat is Independent Bookstore Day? \nIndependent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April.  Every store is unique and independent\, and every party is different. But in addition to authors\, live music\, cupcakes\, scavenger hunts\, kids events\, art tables\, readings\, barbecues\, contests\, and other fun stuff\, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online. \nWhy are we celebrating independent bookstores? \nIndependent bookstores are not just stores\, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent. \nIn a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads\, bookstores are not a dying anachronism.  They are living\, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact\, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2019/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190425T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190425T210000
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SUMMARY:Cherrie Moraga
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed artist\, Cherríe Moraga delivers a poetic\, heart-wrenching reflection on her mother’s complex relationship to America and the pioneering\, queer Latina feminist daughter who continues down the path of identity forged by her battle-tested matriarch. \nAs a child\, Elvira was hired out as a child by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. Leaving California in the late-1920s\, she became a cigarette girl in Jazz-age Tijuana\, meeting a wealthy white man who taught her life lesson of power\, sex\, and opportunity. In her old age\, she suffered under the yoke of Alzheimer’s. In relief against the extraordinary story of Elvira’s life\, is Cherríe’s own journey. Through Native Country of the Heart and her mother’s trials\, Moraga traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of the pueblo. \nMeet Cherríe Moraga – co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back and cofounder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press – one of the most influential artist activists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190424T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190424T143000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Seminar: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris\nWho needs to be talked into reading this comic genius?? Sedaris is so smart and funny\, such a master of observation\, that he is calling the seminars away from our usual fiction to immerse us in his hilarious world. Leavened with some of his smartest humor\, this volume encompasses not only Sedaris’s singular childhood but the hazards of growing older. We will take a close look at how his humor works\, how structure impacts the essays and why diction is key in any good writing. I can almost guarantee a significant lift in mood as soon as you settle in to this work by the man Oprah Magazine rightly calls the “funniest writer in America.” \nA copy of Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls is included in the price of the Seminar and should be picked up at Kepler’s (and read) prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-seminar-lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190422T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190422T203000
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls\, David Sedaris\nWho needs to be talked into reading this comic genius?? Sedaris is so smart and funny\, such a master of observation\, that he is calling the seminars away from our usual fiction to immerse us in his hilarious world. Leavened with some of his smartest humor\, this volume encompasses not only Sedaris’s singular childhood but the hazards of growing older. We will take a close look at how his humor works\, how structure impacts the essays and why diction is key in any good writing. I can almost guarantee a significant lift in mood as soon as you settle in to this work by the man Oprah Magazine rightly calls the “funniest writer in America.” \nA copy of Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls is included in the price of the Seminar and should be picked up at Kepler’s (and read) prior to the meeting date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-lets-explore-diabetes-with-owls-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190418T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190418T203000
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SUMMARY:Lori Gottlieb with Irvin D. Yalom
DESCRIPTION:Lori Gottlieb is the bestselling author\, therapist and speaker behind the Dear Therapist advice column at The Atlantic. In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, Gottlieb offers a bird’s eye-view into the therapist’s office in a book that is part clinician’s journal\, part memoir\, part reckoning with the experience of living. Literary with a spot of self-help\, Kirkus calls Gottlieb’s latest “an irresistibly addictive tour of the human condition\,” while Susan Cain goes even further: “Wise\, warm\, smart\, and funny… if you have even an ounce of interest in the conundrum of being human\, you must read this book.” \nWith a degree from Stanford\, a successful writing career\, kids\, and years of experience in private practice under her belt\, Gottlieb most prizes her credentials as “a card-carrying member of the human race.” She advocates healing and a healthy life through the revision of our own well-worn personal stories. \nJoin this brilliant\, down-to-earth and talented human being as she visits Kepler’s for a conversation with the legendary Irvin D. Yalom\, bestselling author of Love’s Executioner and Professor Emeritus at Stanford. \nTogether\, these two great minds will explore Gottlieb’s book\, therapeutic practice\, and what it means to grow in connection with others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-gottlieb-with-irvin-d-yalom/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190417T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190417T203000
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro: The Future of Cannabis
DESCRIPTION:Cannabis is here to stay. While it’s still blacklisted by the federal government\, recreational marijuana is legal now in ten states\, Washington DC\, and the Northern Mariana Islands. And the market for CBD – the non-psychoactive pot ingredient touted for relief of stress\, epilepsy\, and countless other ills – is expected to hit 22 million dollars in three years. Meanwhile\, regulation of cannabis for both getting high and for medical treatment lags hopelessly behind its use. Who’s going to make the rules if the feds sit this one out? And with inroads made by major corporations into what had been a thriving underground market\, what becomes of the old mom and pop operations\, and the criminal cartels that capitalized on prohibition? \nKLF’s news and culture series This Is Now goes to pot for one night\, welcoming two experts to break this down for us:\nDavid Downs is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who covers cannabis policy and legalization. As the cannabis editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, he founded GreenState.com. Downs is the co-author of the new crop science book Marijuana Harvest (2017) by Ed Rosenthal and David Downs. He has guest lectured at Loyola Law School\, and UC Berkeley Extension\, and shared in a 2018 Scripps Howard Award for Breaking News for his “Wine Country Fires” reporting. \nDr. Danielle Ramo is Director of Research Operations at Hopelab\, where she oversees the design and implementation of research efforts across Hopelab’s projects. Danielle is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC San Francisco and a licensed psychologist. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Being Adept prevention intervention program (Beingadept.org)\, and regularly speaks to teens\, parents\, and school administrators throughout the Bay Area about adolescent substance abuse.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-the-future-of-cannabis/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190417T160000
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SUMMARY:Eve Bunting\, Little Yellow Truck
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 17\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced children’s event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs and sitting areas are usually set up for open seating about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 15th. \nEver feel too small\, not adequate enough\, or worried about what role you play in an important task? Little Yellow Truck did too. As lumberyard owner Riley gears up for a busy day and a new project\, he assigns tasks to his many trucks. A dump truck\, a flatbed truck\, a concrete mixer\, and a little yellow truck all stand by ready to help. From hauling trash to pouring concrete\, one by one they are all assigned tasks\, except for Little Yellow Truck. Is there nothing he can do to help? \nThere’s no reason for Little Yellow Truck’s worry as Riley has just the right task and an important role at that! Written by acclaimed children’s author Eve Bunting\, this story reinforces the message that even the smallest helper can make a lasting impact and that sometimes waiting is the hardest part. Social emotional learning can be explored through this title because feelings of disappointment and uncertainty can lead to discovery—specifically Little Yellow’s  discovery of belonging. \n\nEve Bunting has written over 250 children’s books\, winning numerous awards and honors. One day\, as she was passing a builder’s yard\, she saw several large trucks—and one little yellow truck\, all by itself among the big guys. “I’m going to write a story about that little truck”\, she thought\, “and I’ll show that it’s important too.” Sometimes that is how story ideas originate. Her books include Ghost Cat and Mr. Goat’s Valentine. She lives in Pasadena\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eve-bunting-little-yellow-truck/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Matt Richtel\, An Elegant Defense
DESCRIPTION:TUESDAY\, APRIL 16\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 14th. \nThe immune system impacts every aspect of our lives\, including sleep\, mood\, fitness\, nutrition\, brain function and aging\, and is the ultimate key to wellness and longevity. And yet\, it is widely misunderstood. Many people operate under the misconception that they can “boost” their immune system to stay healthy. The truth is the immune system is an incredibly intricate balance within the body (its complexity rivals that of the human brain). The more we understand about how this “elegant defense” operates\, the more we can improve our lives. \nMagnificently reported and soulfully crafted\, An Elegant Defense is the first major narrative exploration of the immune system. Through science and storytelling\, Richtel describes the remarkable discovery of the immune system over the last seventy years and explains in vivid detail how this complex system works\, how we interact with it\, and the risks we inflict on ourselves when we meddle with its natural balance. \nRichtel brings the science to life through the stories of four intimate and extraordinary medical stories: a cancer patient risen from the grave\, an HIV patient considered a medical marvel\, and two “invisible” women who suffer the stark injustice of autoimmunity. The story of Jason Greenstein\, a close friend of the author\, is particularly poignant as Richtel recounts Jason’s fight with cancer and astounding reaction to experimental treatment. \nThroughout the narrative\, Richtel accessibly weaves leading-edge scientific discovery through interviews and anecdotes from dozens of the world’s leading scientists. The breadth of his research and reporting is remarkable\, including insight into the work of immunologist James Allison\, who just this month won the Nobel Prize for his work disrupting the communication between cells and the immune system to “trick” cancer. The strides made by the immunologists in the book offer a glimpse at a future of longer\, more comfortable life and of authentic understanding of the forces that drive survival. \nBut Richtel argues that the most powerful first-line of health lies within each of us: our behavior\, our attitudes\, and the choices we make. Whether common knowledge or counterintuitive advice\, An Elegant Defense will enlighten readers about how every facet of life connects to the immune system. Richtel explores fascinating questions – from why boosting your immune system is a myth to what’s behind the explosion of autoimmune disorders in recent decades (a concern for 50 million Americans). \nAmong the thought-provoking topics Richtel explores in the book: \n\n\nWhy you should avoid using antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers \n\n\nThe close connection between mental health and the immune system \n\n\nWhy women are more likely to get sick than men \n\n\nThe impact of obesity and modern diets on the immune system and gut health \n\n\nWhy parents shouldn’t freak out when kids eat dirt or pick their noses \n\n\nWhy Amish people have fewer allergies than the rest of the population \n\n\nThe frontline of cancer treatments\, and whether immunotherapy is the wonder fix some have promised \n\n\nAre there “superviruses” that may be resistant to drugs and spread like wildfire across the globe? \n\n\nHow modern life and our “always on” culture puts unprecedented stress on the very system that keeps us healthy \n\n\n  \nRichtel also reflects on a striking paradox: immunology\, once a backwater science and now arguably the center of modern medicine\, has given us two profound gifts. One is a trove of medicine so powerful it can revive a cancer patient from their deathbed\, reverse a deadly autoimmune disorder\, and tinker with our immune systems at the deepest\, molecular level.  But the second gift is a little-grasped lesson that these tools are desperate\, last-line measures. Eventually\, death comes for us all\, and Richtel explains why our immune system is complicit in this inevitability from the day we’re born. \nPerfect for readers of popular science and books like The Emperor of All Maladies and I Contain Multitudes\, An Elegant Defense will illuminate truths about the literal bodyguard within us all.  I hope you’ll take a close look at this advance copy and consider a review or other coverage in the spring.  And please let me know if you’d like additional review copies or more information. \nMATT RICHTEL is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles he expanded into his first nonfiction book\, A Deadly Wandering (2014)\, an investigation of a fatal distracted-driving crash\, about which the New York Times Book Review hailed\, “It deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high-school curriculums.” A New York Times bestseller\, A Deadly Wandering was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Christian Science Monitor\, Kirkus Reviews\, Winnipeg Free Press\, and Amazon.com. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air\, PBS NewsHour\, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco\, California. Visit him online at www.mattrichtel.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-richtel-an-elegant-defense/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Big Ideas Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli\nWhy do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric\, accessible prose\, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. \nFor most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time\, but the more scientists learn about it\, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal\, moving steadily from past to future\, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one\, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy\, science and literature\, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective\, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. \nAlready a bestseller in Italy\, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing\, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent\, culturally rich\, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPosted in Literary Discussions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-ideas-reading-group-3/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Dave Barry
DESCRIPTION:After Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry turned 70\, did he look to his friends for support? Did he find solace in the family around him? \nNot a chance. \nIn his new book\, Lessons from Lucy\, the laugh-out-loud columnist that the New York Times once called “the funniest man in America\,” looked to his dog Lucy for companionship and a model for how to grow old with grace. \nFrom his beloved dog\, Dave learns to live in the present\, let go of daily grievances\, and feel good in his own skin. Told with Dave’s signature humor and profound ability to find deep meaning in the everyday\, Lessons from Lucy illuminates the great joys of passing 40 and still feeling great. \nShare an evening with the writer who never fails to leave us looking at the world differently while making us laugh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-barry/
LOCATION:Aragon High School Theater\, 900 Alameda de las Pulgas\, San Mataeo\, CA\, 94402
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alta Magazine & Books Inc. Present DAVID KUSHNER in conversation with Gary Kremen\, founder of Match.com
DESCRIPTION:Alta Magazine and Books Inc. present Rolling Stone contributing editor David Kushner for a discussion of his brillant new work\, The Players Ball: A Genius\, a Con Man\, and the Secret History of the Internet’s Rise. David will be in conversation with Gary Kremen\, founder of Match.com. \nA Wild West look at the early days of the internet–the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the online domain name Sex.com in an all-out war for control over the fuel that still powers the online world to this day: love and lust. \nIn 1994\, visionary entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2\,500 loan to create the first online dating service\, Match.com. Despite only 5 percent of Americans using the internet at the time\, Kremen insisted his invention would transform our lives. That wasn’t all he was accurately predicted. He also anticipated that internet addresses\, or domain names\, would be the bedrock of the dawning digital frontier\, eventually gathering the same kind of value as real estate properties. So\, while his friends thought he was crazy\, he bought dozens up\, including the domain Sex.com. Love and lust\, he believed\, would fuel this new world to new heights. But in 1995\, as Kremen prepared to launch his next venture\, he was shocked to learn that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the rights to the Sex.com name and was making millions that Kremen had never seen. \nIn The Players Ball\, award-winning journalist David Kushner draws from years of research and interviews to vividly recreate the Wild West years online\, when innovators and outlaws battled for power and money. He explores the risks\, rewards\, challenges\, and back alleys of how the world online came to be and provides essential insights about where it’s heading. The Players Ball is the rollicking true story of a decade-long cat-and-mouse game between a genius and a con man that changed the way people connect\, and defined the digital age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-magazine-books-inc-present-david-kushner-in-conversation-with-gary-kremen-founder-of-match-com/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, Ink Knows No Borders
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to host an evening with Patrice Vecchione as she presents her new book\, Ink Knows No Borders\, a poetry collection that brings together some of the most compelling and vibrant voices today reflecting the experiences of teen immigrants and refugees. This event is part of Bookshop’s year-long programming effort\, 2020 Vision. \nWith authenticity\, integrity\, and insight\, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees\, such as cultural and language differences\, homesickness\, social exclusion\, human rights\, racism\, stereotyping\, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo\, Erika L. Sánchez\, Samira Ahmed\, Chen Chen\, Ocean Vuong\, Fatimah Asghar\, Carlos Andrés Gómez\, Bao Phi\, Kaveh Akbar\, Hala Alyan\, and Ada Limón\, among others\, encourage readers to honor their roots as well as explore new paths\, offering empathy and hope for those who are struggling to overcome discrimination. Many of the struggles immigrant and refugee teens face head-on are also experienced by young people everywhere as they contend with isolation\, self-doubt\, confusion\, and emotional dislocation. \nInk Knows No Borders is the first book of its kind and features 65 poems and a foreword by poet Javier Zamora\, who crossed the border\, unaccompanied\, at the age of nine\, and an afterword by Emtithal Mahmoud\, World Poetry Slam Champion and Honorary Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR\, the UN Refugee Agency. Brief biographies of the poets are included\, as well. It’s a hopeful\, beautiful\, and meaningful book for any reader. \n\n\n“This collection cuts right to the heart of the matter at a time when it is most relevant. . . . This symphony of poetry is a necessary series of bruises and balms that will comfort those who have endured\, uplift those who continue to struggle\, and educate others.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n\n\n“I was moved again and again by the poems in this brave\, beautiful and necessary collection. I found echoes of myself in many of the pieces\, and I know so many young immigrants and Americans will find themselves\, too. But it goes beyond that. I wish this book would be taught in homogenous communities\, too\, so readers with little understanding of immigration will have the chance to see its humanity. This is the most important book we will read this year.” —Matt de la Peña\, New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award winning author \n\n\nPoet\, nonfiction writer\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 9th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-ink-knows-no-borders/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Ruth Reichl\, Save Me the Plums
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 10\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 9th. \n  \nTrailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the glamorous\, high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now\, for the first time\, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet\, during which she spearheaded a revolution in the way we think about food. \nWhen Condé Nast offered Ruth Reichl the top position at America’s oldest epicurean magazine\, she declined. She was a writer\, not a manager\, and had no inclination to be anyone’s boss. And yet . . . Reichl had been reading Gourmet since she was eight; it had inspired her career. How could she say no? \nThis is the story of a former Berkeley hippie entering the corporate world and worrying about losing her soul. It is the story of the moment restaurants became an important part of popular culture\, a time when the rise of the farm-to-table movement changed\, forever\, the way we eat. Readers will meet legendary chefs like David Chang and Eric Ripert\, idiosyncratic writers like David Foster Wallace\, and a colorful group of editors and art directors who\, under Reichl’s leadership\, transformed stately Gourmet into a cutting-edge publication. This was the golden age of print media — the last spendthrift gasp before the Internet turned the magazine world upside down. \nComplete with recipes\, Save Me the Plums is a personal journey of a woman coming to terms with being in charge and making a mark\, following a passion and holding on to her dreams — even when she ends up in a place she never expected to be. \nRuth Reichl is the bestselling author of the memoirs Tender at the Bone\, Comfort Me with Apples\, Garlic and Sapphires\, and For You\, Mom\, Finally; the novel Delicious!; and\, most recently\, the cookbook My Kitchen Year. She was editor in chief of Gourmet magazine for ten years. Previously she was the restaurant critic for The New York Timesand served as the food editor and restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has been honored with six James Beard Awards for her journalism\, magazine feature writing\, and criticism. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two cats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-reichl-save-me-the-plums/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Roz Chast & Patricia Marx on Mothers
DESCRIPTION:Much beloved\, utterly genius contributors to The New Yorker for decades\, the inimitable cartoonist Roz Chast and wry humorist Patricia Marx have now joined forces to gently roast our very favorite human beings: moms. \nJoin us as we welcome both creators for a celebration of motherhood with their new collection\, Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? \nAs a writer\, Marx has always had an eye for small\, domestic absurdities and almost minuscule sociological rebellions—and\, for years\, she has been noting her own mother’s most eccentric one-liners\, with great glee. She compiles them all here! Cartoonist Roz Chast\, whose own mother describes her artistic work as “a conspiracy of inanimate objects\,” highlights the peculiarity of each one-liner with her own wickedly sly sense of visual humor and deep love for how unique a parent’s outlook can truly be. In-conversation to share with us the best of their work\, join these two remarkable women just in time to get that book personalized for Mother’s Day. Don’t miss this chance to chance to celebrate the humor\, grace\, and sheer oddity of moms! \nROZ CHAST has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1978\, and is the only cartoonist we’ve heard of with multiple honorary doctorates\, in addition to several books and a boatload of awards under her belt. In 2012\, she was awarded the NYC Literary Honor in Humor. She has a knack for revealing the entire feeling of a situation in just one sentence\, as evidenced by her critically acclaimed 2014 memoir\, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? \nPATRICIA MARX was the first woman humorist ever elected to The Harvard Lampoon\, a writer for Saturday Night Live and Rugrats\, and a contributor of creative\, unusual ephemera to The New Yorker since 1989. She has authored multiple books\, taught at university\, given a TEDxTalk\, won some awards\, and only occasionally feared for her own wits. She was the recipient of the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roz-chast-patricia-marx-on-mothers/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lisa See\, The Island of Sea Women
DESCRIPTION:MONDAY\, APRIL 8\, 2019 – 7:00PM \nA new novel from Lisa See\, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. \nMi-ja and Young-sook\, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju\, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough\, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective\, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers\, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. \nDespite their love for each other\, Mi-ja and Young-sook’s differences are impossible to ignore. The Island of Sea Women is an epoch set over many decades\, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s\, followed by World War II\, the Korean War and its aftermath\, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time\, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator\, and she will forever be marked by this association. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that after surviving hundreds of dives and developing the closest of bonds\, forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. \nThis beautiful\, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down\, one where the women are in charge\, engaging in dangerous physical work\, and the men take care of the children. A classic Lisa See story–one of women’s friendships and the larger forces that shape them– The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce and unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island and the dramatic history that shaped their lives. \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women\, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the History Maker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 6th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-see-the-island-of-sea-women/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Non-Fiction Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Continental Army under an unsure George Washington (who had never commanded a large force in battle) evacuates New York after a devastating defeat by the British Army. Three weeks later\, near the Canadian border\, one of his favorite generals\, Benedict Arnold\, miraculously succeeds in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have ended the war. Four years later\, as the book ends\, Washington has vanquished his demons and Arnold has fled to the enemy after a foiled attempt to surrender the American fortress at West Point to the British. After four years of war\, America is forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within. \nValiant Ambition is a complex\, controversial\, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity\, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold\, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led\, Washington’s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war that really matters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/non-fiction-discussion-group-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Story Time with Chris Van Dusen
DESCRIPTION:A new book by Kate DiCamillo and Chris Van Dusen is a cause for celebration. And we WILL be celebrating when Chris Van Dusen\, one of our favorite picture book author/illustrators\, visits Kepler’s on April 6. \nEvery porcine wonder was once a piglet – discover Mercy Watson’s delightful origin story in A Piglet Named Mercy. an endearing picture-book prequel to the beloved New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Van Dusen is the author-illustrator of many books for young readers\, including The Circus Ship\, If I Built a House\, If I Built a Car\, Down to the Sea with Mr Magee and Hattie & Hudson\, and the illustrator of the Mercy Watson and Deckawoo Drive series. \nMr. Watson and Mrs. Watson live ordinary lives. Sometimes their lives feel a bit too ordinary. Sometimes they wish something different would happen. And one day it does\, when someone unpredictable finds her way to their front door. In a delightful origin story for the star of the Mercy Watson series\, a tiny piglet brings love (and chaos) to Deckawoo Drive — and the Watsons’ lives will never be the same. \nJoin us and celebrate the joy of a new arrival by a longtime favorite author.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-time-with-chris-van-dusen/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Kepler’s Literary Foundation for a book discussion with author Laila Lalami! From the celebrated Pulitzer Prize finalist who swept multiple book awards with The Moor’s Account comes this lyric\, fascinating new novel The Other Americans. Through nine separate narrators whose accounts effortlessly interweave\, Lalami unravels both the mystery of an immigrant’s sudden death and the quiet schisms that underlie American culture. \nThe novel opens with Nora\, a jazz composer\, who sips champagne with a friend on the same night that her father dies in an apparent hit-and-run near his home in California. Maryam\, Nora’s mother\, narrates a following chapter; a distant neighbor\, another; an undocumented witness\, a friend and immigrant\, and a detective all speak to the events leading up to and following Driss Guerroui’s death. These dueling narrative lines call out to secrets both within Nora’s family and throughout the town. \nThe Other Americans has already garnered extraordinary praise from Kirkus\, Publisher’s Weekly\, and talented writers of fiction like J.M. Coetzee and Viet Thanh Nguyen\, who gets it exactly right when he calls Laila Lalami “a writer of uncommon conviction and tremendous insight.” Don’t miss the opportunity to meet this glittering star in the literary pantheon at the height of her career. RSVP now for Lalami’s visit on April 4th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laila-lalami/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:LOLLY WINSTON at Books Inc. Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Lolly Winston—New York Times-bestselling author of Good Grief–discusses her poignant new novel\, Me for You. \nThe last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning\, a widow at fifty-four years old. Now\, ten months after the untimely death of his beloved wife\, he’s still not sure how to move on from the defining tragedy of his life–but his new job is helping. After being downsized from his finance position\, Rudy turned to his first love: the piano. Some people might be embarrassed to work as the piano player at Nordstrom\, but for Rudy\, there’s joy in bringing a little music into the world. And it doesn’t hurt that Sasha\, the Hungarian men’s watch clerk who is finally divorcing her no-good husband\, finds time to join him at the bench every now and then. \nJust when Rudy and Sasha’s relationship begins to deepen\, the police come to the store with an update about Rudy’s wife’s untimely death–a coworker has confessed to her murder–but Rudy’s actions are suspicious enough to warrant a second look at him\, too. With Sasha’s husband suddenly reappearing\, and Rudy’s daughter confronting her own marital problems\, suddenly life becomes more complicated than Rudy and Sasha could have imagined. \nWith Winston’s trademark humor and sweetness that will appeal to readers of Jennifer Weiner and Fredrik Backman but is uniquely her own\, Lolly Winston delivers a heartfelt and realistic portrait of loss and grief\, hope and forgiveness\, and two imperfect people coming together to create a perfect love story. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\n\nCampbell\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lolly-winston-at-books-inc-campbell/
LOCATION:Book Inc. Campbell\, 1875 S. Bascom Avenue\, Suite #600\, Campbell\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:RHYS BOWEN at Books Inc. Palo Alto
DESCRIPTION:Award-winnig crime writer Rhys Bowen shares her heart-rending new novel\, The Victory Garden. \nAs the Great War continues to take its toll\, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more\, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. \nWhen he is sent back to the front\, Emily volunteers as a “land girl\,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily\, and in the wake of devastating news\, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified–and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married\, she adopts the charade of a war widow. \nAs Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs\, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster\, but may open a path to her destiny. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 4\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n74 Town & Country Village\n\nPalo Alto\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhys-bowen-at-books-inc-palo-alto/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus
DESCRIPTION:Meredith May\, The Honey Bus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 4\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nAn extraordinary story of a girl\, her grandfather and one of nature’s most mysterious and beguiling creatures: the honeybee. Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old\, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather\, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May\, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her eyes\, in the secret world of bees. \nMay turned to her grandfather and the art of beekeeping as an escape from her troubled reality. Her mother had receded into a volatile cycle of neurosis and despair and spent most days locked away in the bedroom. It was during this pivotal time in May’s childhood that she learned to take care of herself\, forged an unbreakable bond with her grandfather and opened her eyes to the magic and wisdom of nature.The bees became a guiding force in May’s life\, teaching her about family and community\, loyalty and survival and the unequivocal relationship between a mother and her child. \nPart memoir\, part beekeeping odyssey\, The Honey Bus is an unforgettable story about finding home in the most unusual of places\, and how a tiny\, little-understood insect could save a life. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, where her narrative reporting won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize. She is coauthor of I\, Who Did Not Die and is a fifth-generation beekeeper. She lives in San Francisco\, where she keeps several hives in a community garden. \n“Filled with hope\, grace\, beauty\, and wisdom\, this book is like warm honey in the sunshine. It beautifully illustrates how nature – even honeybees – can teach and heal us\, if only we open our minds and hearts. It’s the kind of book that stays with you long after you’ve finished it–a rare treasure–and you don’t have to be a bee lover to be deeply moved by May’s wonderful story. I’m recommending it to everyone I know.” \n— Stacey O’Brien\, New York Times bestselling author of Wesley the Owl \n“Captivating and surprising…. If you’ve ever been stung by a bee you will instantly forget the venom and remember forever the sweetness and redemption bees offer in this extraordinary book.” \n— Sy Montgomery\, New York Times bestselling author of How To Be A Good Creature and The Soul of an Octopus \n“If Meredith May’s book was simply an ethology of bees I would devour every word; her prose is tender\, thoughtful and transporting. But The Honey Bus is so much more – a memoir of aching loneliness\, reckoning and redemption. Beautiful and brave.” \n— Domenica Ruta\, New York Times bestselling author of With or Without You: A Memoir \n“The wounded feminine\, the missing masculine\, healed by a relationship with honeybees. An innocent child’s hard won journey to adulthood–clear eyed\, often very funny\, and agonizingly compassionate. The Honey Bus is all these things and more–so if you’ve ever been a lonely child\, or want the world to become a kinder place\, here is your book.” \n— Laline Paull\, author of The Bees \n“The Honey Bus is a rare treat for true storytelling deeply rooted in science. Everyone will leave this book with much more knowledge about bees and humanity\, and the compassion that lives at the intersection of the two. [A] captivating coming of age family story.” \n— Noah Wilson-Rich\, Ph.D.\, author of The Bee: A Natural History \n“To read about Meredith May’s bee family and her human family is to garner heart strength. A true story in every sense.” \n— Maxine Hong Kingston\, bestselling author of The Woman Warrior \n  \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 2nd.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-the-honey-bus-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:A star at the heart of our literary constellations for decades\, from the bestselling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius to McSweeney’s\, Dave Eggers returns to Kepler’s for the release of his latest fiction work\, The Parade. \nEggers is a staunch supporter of independent bookstores\, the founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia in San Francisco\, and a writer who consistently champions humanist ideals through empathetic literature. His characters– deeply realized\, flawed\, and driven by extremes– offer readers moral complexity alongside careful critique into modernity. Distinct\, meaningful\, enjoyable… Eggers is\, in short\, the perfect read\, noted for his postmodern and deeply sincere approach. \nJoin us on April 3rd to hear Dave Eggers speak about a powerful piece of new writing. \nThe Parade has already garnered positive reviews for its tight\, beautiful prose: a spare portrait of two very different men attempting to lay a roadway in an unnamed country long rent by civil war\, it uses specific characters in ambiguous yet familiar settings to highlight present-day concerns. For this style\, Kirkus describes Eggers as “the only living American writer for whom the term Hemingway-esque meaningfully applies.” \nHow often do we have the opportunity to hear the living embodiment of future western canon\, in person? \nAt least once\, on April 3rd at Kepler’s Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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